The Adventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis

The Adventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis

Our six authors from four continents representing several branches of Evangelicalism are united in affirming the classical Christian understanding of God as Trinity as crucial for knowing God, understanding the world, and serving God honestly. Their essays lead up to a compilation of classical creeds regarding this foundational proclamation. Thomas K. Johnson: The Trinity is a matter of knowing God in his complexity, totally different from us in our singularity yet radically similar in having personality in his image, then letting this knowledge of God become the pattern of a renewed Christian mind. Brian Edgar: This presentation of the consummate dimensions of the Trinity . . . tells us that the life of God as Trinity is something in which we participate rather than something to be intellectually comprehended. J. Scott Horrell: The suggestion, humbly submitted, is especially for a missional Trinitarian worldview--not missional as from one culture to another, but missional as each body of believers seeks to engage and express Trinitarian faith within their own culture. William P. Atkinson: As the Father's kenotic 'leadership' of the Trinity thereby exalts the Son and the Spirit, so too we can expect that the sort of servant-leadership that answers Jesus' high-priestly prayer will lift those who are being led. Pavel Hosek: The Enlightenment reductionist rationalism in theology is going through a serious crisis, and the relativistic postmodern alternatives do not provide any firm epistemological basis for responsible theological thinking. I suggest that the trinitarian intellectual framework which Comenius and Lewis tried to develop offers a promising and inspiring way forward for Christian theologians faithful to the orthodox teachings of the church who are struggling with the intellectual challenges of contemporary culture. Tersur Aben: The Trinity is the heart of God's self-disclosure to and involvement with humans on earth. . . . The mission of the church is thus to proclaim the gospel of salvation and the restoration of humans back to God, which the Son accomplished on Calvary and the Holy Spirit applies to believers on Pentecost.

ü¾Œ–Œ¼lvaro Mutis (1923-2013) was born in Bogotü¾Œ–”¼, Colombia. As a child he lived in Brussels, returning to Bogotü¾Œ–”¼ to complete his education, and lived in Mexico from 1956 until his death. Mutis was the author of poetry, short stories, and novels. His first poems were published in 1948, his first short stories in 1978, and his first novella, The Snow of the Admiral--the initial volume of the Maqroll series--in 1986. He received many literary awards, including the Prix Medicis in 1989 and the 2002 Neustadt Prize for Literature.

Francisco Goldman is the author of four novels, The Long Night of White Chickens, The Ordinary Seaman, The Divine Husband, the forthcoming Say Her Name, and one work of nonfiction, The Art of Political Murder.

Edith Grossman is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose by leading contemporary Spanish-language writers, including Garbiel Garcü¾™†”¼a Mü¾Œ–”¼rquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero, Augusto Monterroso, Jaime Manrique, Juliü¾Œ–”¼n Rü¾™†”¼os, and, of course, ü¾Œ–Œ¼lvaro Mutis. Her most recent translation is Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat and she is currently at work on Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote of La Mancha.

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ISBN 13	9780060170042
ISBN 10	0060170042
Title	The Adventures of Maqroll
Author	Alvaro Mutis
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1995-02-01
Number of pages	369
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